We Are Your Answer to
Active Advocacy Participation
in all Special Education & Section 504 Plan Meetings
on Behalf of Children with a Disability.
The special education system has become a “roller coaster ride” for many families, leaving them full of emotions. This is why CNY Special Needs Advocacy, LLC was started. We are here to offer professional educational advocacy services that are affordable.
- Advocates have specialized knowledge of the special education system.
- Our process includes a comprehensive review of all your child's records, including but not limited to, school evaluations, report cards, progress notes, medical reports, independent educational evaluations, etc.
- After our review, we take a very active role in advocating for a strategic and objective IEP, specific to your child's needs.
- We can help you understand the special education process, your child's test scores, student discipline, bullying/disability harassment concerns, assistance with writing letters to the school (i.e. requesting independent educational evaluations (IEE), review the IEP to ensure all parts (Present Levels of Performance, Measurable Annual Goals, etc.) are consistent with the NYS Education Department Guidelines, and most importantly, speak on your behalf at the CSE meeting to negotiate disputes.
- Advocates are usually successful at resolving disputes at the IEP level. However, we cannot make any promises or guarantees to the outcome of any case.
- School districts do not tend to be as defensive to an advocate.
- Professional advocates may give you legal information and help you negotiate and resolve disputes. But, they are not lawyers, and cannot give you the same type of legal advice as attorneys or act as your lawyer.
- Advocates know exactly when parents have reached the point where they need to hire an attorney.
Mission Statement
CNY Special Needs Advocacy, LLC values parental input on their child’s unique needs, encourages high expectations and combines that with professional advocacy to build positive relationships within the school system to ensure each child with a disability receives an appropriate education so they can contribute equally to the future needs of our diverse society.
In Principle, Inclusive Education means...
the valuing of diversity within the human community. When inclusive education is fully embraced, we abandon the idea that children have to become “normal” in order to contribute to the world. We begin to look beyond typical ways of becoming valued members of the community and in doing so, begin to realize the achievable goal of providing all children with an authenic sense of belonging. (Kunc, Norman, 1992, pp. 38-39)
